incident-runbook

incident-runbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 56 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A production incident response guide for handling outages or serious service problems, followed by a post-incident review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify an incident, mitigate it with actions such as rollback or disabling a feature, diagnose the cause, verify recovery, and document a repeatable runbook.
Why use it?
It keeps teams focused on reducing user impact first, before spending time finding the underlying cause.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to classify an incident, mitigate it with actions such as rollback or disabling a feature, diagnose the cause, verify recovery, and document a repeatable runbook.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/incident-runbook
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill incident-runbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 570 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00056 $0.00570
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 12d ago against content hash 542542df41bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-runbook scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude-starter/skills/incident-runbook/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response & Runbook

Trigger phrases: "incident", "incident response", "runbook", "postmortem", "root cause", "outage", "production incident", "post-incident"

Two modes: live incident (what to do right now) and aftermath (postmortem + runbook). Priority: stopping user impact > finding the root cause. No panic, one ordered step at a time.

Live incident — sequence

  1. Acknowledge & classify — what is the impact (who, how much), severity (SEV1 full outage … SEV3 minor).
  2. Mitigate the impact FIRST — rollback, turn off a feature flag, shift traffic, scale up. Without waiting on the root cause.
  3. Single coordinator — it is clear who decides; communication goes through one channel.
  4. Diagnose — last change? (deploy/migration/config) narrow it down with logs+metrics+traces (observability).
  5. Resolve — the smallest safe fix; then verify (health check).
  6. Close — confirm the impact is over; note the timeline (a postmortem input).

Mitigation reflexes

  • Last deploy suspect → rollback (deploy revert).
  • Suspect feature → turn off the feature flag.
  • After a destructive migration → restore from backup (db-migration).
  • Dependency/service down → circuit breaker / graceful degradation.

After the incident

Blameless postmortem + producing a durable runbook: references/postmortem.md.

Invariant rules

  1. Stop the impact, then understand — the root cause does not hold up the resolution.
  2. Blameless culture — the postmortem questions the system, not the person.
  3. Actions are owned + dated — no "we'll look at it later".
  4. The runbook is executable — real commands/steps, not wishes.
  5. Make learning permanent — the lesson goes into an adr/runbook/monitoring, it does not get lost.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 43 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 542542df41bc

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incident-runbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 570 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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